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Uli Petzold’s koan-like credo is “Lighting is not lighting.” He explains: “If a space is evenly lit you give equal importance to everything. But some features deserve more emphasis than others.” “Not lighting,” means eliminating over-lighting, channeling daylight, adding smart fixtures, balancing them and reflecting them. Petzold runs the aesthetic illumination planning business “Uli+friends” in Miami, Florida, with a team …
Backyards are a place for family, friends, and guests to come together. It’s now common to have a full kitchen, barbecue, television displays, and a top-notch audio system to assist in the ambiance thus transforming the backyard into a resort like oasis. The above photo is a recent AHT project that was integrated several months ago. When dealing with such …
A naked window in the eyes of an interior designer is like a blank canvas waiting to be painted. The question arises what tool is needed for the job? Well, the interior design toolbox has just increased with Lutron’s new Venetian Motorized Blinds with Intelligent Tilt Alignment. Control Features: • Set favorite blind height and tilt angle for the slats …
In walks the AV integrator. It’s currently 10:30 AM at an interior design firm somewhere in the United States. One of the first meetings of a client’s dream home project is about to take place. The designer already has the project meticulously planned out to meet and exceed the clients design expectations. The designer looks at the AV integrator with …
The pulse of Midtown Manhattan beats with a rhythm of all it’s own. It’s comprised of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people that collectively equal a wave of energy that most cities find hard to rival. It can be exhilarating and at the same time exhausting. I find most people have a love hate relationship with the city. …
There has been graceful fight occurring for the past 4.5 billion years, the estimated age of the Earth. It’s a fight between light and darkness. Only since Thomas Edison invented and mass produced the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb in the late 1800’s that this balance between light and darkness has begun to shift. Now instead of only receiving light …
In the last post, we exposed the future of hidden sleek touch panels and displays made of glass technology that integrates seamlessly into everyday life. In this post, we are going to stay on that same theme of “hidden technology”, but this is a solution that can be integrated today. TRUFIG’s revolutionary flush-mounting solutions are designed for aesthetic-conscious architects, designers, …
Even if you are not familiar with Corning, chances are you have used their technology almost every day. They engineer high quality glass technology for displays, telecommunications, environmental, and specialty materials. The video above is what they are envisioning our world made with their glass technology to look like in the near future. On first view, I couldn’t stop thinking …